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Thailand: Emergency Patients ‘Will Be Treated for Free at the Nearest Hospital’

NIEM secretary-general Anuchar Sethasathien said the institute would outline criteria to protect the rights of emergency and trauma patients and set up an Emco Service Centre to offer 24-hour consultant services. He said state agencies had met and mapped out guidelines for hospitals to protect the rights of emergency and trauma patients so that they would receive medical treatment unconditionally without charge.\r\nHe said emergency and trauma patients must be able to access medical treatment from the closest hospital regardless of whether it is a private hospital.

Thailand: Volunteers Give Kiss of Life

Bangkok: \"Look at me, stay with us,\" the paramedics shout as a barely conscious motorcyclist is bundled into a volunteer ambulance in the Laotian capital Vientiane, where rampant drink driving brings nightly carnage to the roads. It is a grim scene familiar the world over.\r\nBut in Laos, an impoverished and authoritarian communist country with almost no state-funded medical services, these kind of vital lifesavers are volunteers and entirely funded by donations. By the time the crew arrive at a nearby hospital, the Japanese donated ambulance - a right hand drive vehicle in a left hand drive nation - has picked up 2 more injured on th

Thailand: Finally, Bangkok is getting its first ambulance lane

Bangkok: Bangkok unveils Thailand’s first ever emergency lane to let ambulances and other emergency vehicles access hospitals faster on 28 September 2016.\r\nThis first emergency lane is only two kilometers long but it’s in a very well-traveled area — it stretches from Din Daeng junction to Rajavithi Hospital.

Thailand: Thai Government Provides Medics and Hotline for Thais Overcome by King’s Passing

Bangkok: His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej was so revered that many Thai people around the country fainted or felt unwell when they learnt this week that he had died after 70 years on the throne.\r\nTwo days on, the government says it has provided medical treatment to scores of people overcome by grief and has told mourners they can call a hotline to help them through the trauma.“There are people who hyperventilate and we try to calm them down by talking to them,” said Boonruang Triruangworawat, director general of the Department of Mental Health, “Others we have to send to hospital.”

Thailand: New Regulations ‘to ensure’ Free Emergency Treatment

The public, after all, has heard too often over the past 5 years how so many families struggle with massive medical bills after their beloved were rushed to hospitals. This is in spite of the fact the Public Health Ministry first unveiled the policy to give people the right to free emergency medical services in 2012.\r\nPublic Health Minister Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn assigned Dr Sopon Mekthon, permanent secretary for Public Health, to fully implement the policy from next month. “We will issue 3 ministerial regulations to enforce the policy,” Sopon said.